Revolutionising Energy Storage: A Flow Battery Boosted by Simple Sugar

Scientists, at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, have made a ground-breaking discovery in the energy sector.

By adding a simple sugar, to a flow battery, they have increased the battery’s energy storage, and durability by 60%.  

The new flow battery technology design, engineered for the electrical grid, has shown its capacity, to store and release energy continuously for over a year.

This next-generation flow battery, could give rise to future low-cost and sustainable systems, that could keep solar and wind power, for weeks and even months.

What is a flow battery? 

A flow battery, is an electrochemical cell, that gets its energy from two electroactive materials.

These materials, are dissolved in liquid electrolytes, and pumped from tanks through a system, on either side of a membrane.

The membrane between them, serves as the path for ions movement.

The positive electrolyte solution, is called catholyte, and the negative one, is called anolyte.

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